With Sanjay Leela Bhansali bagging the remake rights of 'Kanchana', has his acrimony with Salman Khan reached a new low?

Looks like the rivalry between Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Salman Khan
could have reached an all-new level, with buzz about the director
landing the remake rights of South hit Kanchana.

There had been buzz a while ago that Salman was interested in acquiring
the project, which would have been helmed by his brother Sohail.
Ultimately though nothing turned out, apparently because of moolah
matters. Sources say the makers of the South movie wanted a whopping
amount of R 2. 5 crore just to hand over the remake rights.

Though Bhansali had directed Salman in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, the actor
and the filmmaker had a bitter parting after Sallu apparently made some
vitriolic comments about the SLB's Guzaarish. Bhansali is now said to
be on the lookout for an actor for the project.

A source says, `There has been a lot of rumours about Kanchana's remake.
At the time when Salman was said to acquire the film, he was supposed
to play the lead role in the film. Later, it was said that Shah Rukh
Khan and Sanjay Dutt were also in race.

Other filmmakers too
seemed interested in the South hit. For Guzaarish too, it was Sallu who
was to act in the film initially. But SLB later chose Hrithik Roshan
over him and even cast Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. `

With the two not on speaking terms ever since, SLB bagging the project
could make things between the friends-turned-foes a tad worse.

The source says, `Sallu and SLB's enmity is not new and this development
seems to have taken their acrimony to a whole new level. `